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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Tio Fabi

May 15

Developing network-based multiplayer games made easy

#python #gamedev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Ertugrul

May 15

OpenAnima v1 — Open-Source Desktop Overlay Engine for Windows

#showdev #gamedev #opensource #sideprojects

2 min read

Ali Eissa

May 28

What if UI tests validated user experience instead of selectors?

#webdev #playwright #testing #opensource

2 min read

Printo Tom

May 15

Introducing the AI Workflow Starter Kit: Build, Fork, and Extend AI Workflows Faster

#ai #opensource #github #workflowautomation

1 min read

Bryan |

May 15

AI Agents Are Lying to You

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Bao_Chill_Chill

May 15

I built a zero-dependency markdown folder viewer for AI context engineering (one .html file)

#webdev #opensource

2 min read

Kareem Al-Farsi

May 28

How to show weather on your personal website in 3 lines of JavaScript (no API key needed)

#api #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Adeline

May 14

Teaching My AI Agents to Push Back: Why I Built RoBrain

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

CodeKing

May 15

"My Product Assistant Kept Borrowing the Wrong Model. So I Gave It Its Own Routing Chain"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

6 min read

mk668a

May 15

I built GhostType: inline AI text completion for every app on macOS

#showdev #ai #swift #opensource

3 min read

May 15

I built 108 free browser-based file tools

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

May 19

3DGameMarket - The Company I Started That Robbed Me

#opensource #a11y #blazor #dotnet

39 min read

Tobias Hoffmann

May 15

Bitwarden Yapay Zeka Kodlama Aracısı Güvenli Kasa Erişim Paylaşımı

#agents #ai #opensource #security

11 min read

Mixture of Experts

May 14

How to align coding agents with your plans better than markdown, without burning tokens

#ai #programming #learning #opensource

6 min read

Lucas

May 15

Acesso Seguro do Agente Bitwarden: Compartilhando Credenciais do Vault com Agentes de IA de Codificação

#agents #ai #opensource #security

10 min read

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